Trademark Search & Monitoring Comparison

Australian Trade Mark Search vs. Canadian Trademarks Database

At a glance

Best for

Best for applicants and practitioners who want to search the Australian trade mark register themselves before filing with IP Australia.

Canadian Trademarks Database

Best for

Best for applicants and practitioners who want to search the Canadian trademarks register themselves before filing with CIPO.

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Full Comparison

Criterion	Australian Trade Mark Search	Canadian Trademarks Database
Output	Lists of matching trade marks with full record details, an Excel export of up to 2,000 results, print-friendly pages and PDF reports	Result lists of up to 5,000 trademarks in list or grid view, a CSV export of up to 5,000 rows, and trademark details pages that print or save as PDF
API	Australian Trade Mark Search API with a quick search and a lookup by trade mark number, using OAuth 2.0 client credentials	Not stated
Hosting	Web app at search.ipaustralia.gov.au	Web app on ised-isde.canada.ca
Made in	Australia	Canada
Registers and countries covered	Registered and pending Australian trade marks, including trade marks registered with the International Bureau designating Australia, which are found by their international registration number	All active and many inactive marks applied for or registered under the current Trademarks Act or former trademark legislation, including all marks cancelled, expunged, abandoned or refused after 1979 and some before; national and international (Madrid Protocol) filings can be shown separately. The database also holds section 9 prohibited and official marks, certification marks, geographical indications and plant breeders' rights denominations
Word, phonetic and image search	Word searches with exact, prefix, suffix, part, stem, fuzzy and phonetic options, phrases with AND, OR, NOT, quotes and wildcards, image search by visual similarity from an uploaded PNG, JPG, GIF, BMP or SVG up to 8 MB, advanced image search with standard image constituent terms, and searches by number or range, owner, party, address for service, goods and services text, status, dates, type and flags such as non-use	Basic and advanced searches over 21 fields, with up to 5 criteria combined by AND, OR and NOT, wildcards for one or several characters and quotation marks for exact sequences; filters by category, by type of mark (word, design, sound, colour, 3D, scent, motion and other non-traditional types) and by status group, and figurative searches by Vienna code. The search ignores case and accents
Goods, services and Nice classes	Searches across the 45 classes, with associated classes included by default; choosing Single limits the search to the classes entered	Nice classification is a search field, with the 45 classes plus class 0 for goods or services not classed, and goods and services can also be searched as text
Clearance and conflict screening	A search of the register and not a clearance opinion: IP Australia says a trade marks attorney or lawyer can undertake comprehensive searches for prior registered or unregistered trade marks, and offers a separate free app, TM Checker, for feedback on the likely success of an application	A search of the register and not a clearance opinion: CIPO recommends also searching phonetic equivalents, synonyms and translations into English or French, and consulting a trademark agent or an experienced trademark searcher when a thorough search or an interpretation of the results is required
Watch and alerts	Saved searches in My Searches and in search spaces do not refresh on their own: IP Australia states their results only update when the searches are rerun, with a Rerun all searches button; search spaces are kept for 100 days after last access	Not stated
Reports and exports	Result sets of up to 2,000 export as a Microsoft Excel document, results print as a plain print-friendly page, and the advanced view generates PDF reports; searches run in the advanced view are kept in a My Searches list	Results export as a CSV file of up to 5,000 rows and print from the browser; each trademark's details page can be printed, saved as PDF or shared, and links to its Trademarks Office and Trademarks Opposition Board documents in the Trademarks Document Retrieval Service
Integrations and API	Australian Trade Mark Search API with a quick search endpoint returning matching trade mark numbers, filterable by type, status and update date, and an endpoint returning the publicly available details of one trade mark; access is requested through the IP Australia developer portal and uses OAuth 2.0 client credentials	CIPO publishes trademarks researcher datasets as CSV and TXT tables with quarterly updates, trademark records as individual XML files paired with their images, and bulk data that can be ordered. The search itself is not intended for bulk downloads, and CIPO says clients generating 1,000 or more daily accesses may be denied access
Deployment	Browser-based	Browser-based
Onboarding	Documentation and knowledge base	Documentation and knowledge base

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The short version

Key Differences

Hosting Australian Trade Mark Search Web app at search.ipaustralia.gov.au Canadian Trademarks Database Web app on ised-isde.canada.ca
Made in Australian Trade Mark Search Australia Canadian Trademarks Database Canada
Output Australian Trade Mark Search Lists of matching trade marks with full record details, an Excel export of up to 2,000 results, print-friendly pages and PDF reports Canadian Trademarks Database Result lists of up to 5,000 trademarks in list or grid view, a CSV export of up to 5,000 rows, and trademark details pages that print or save as PDF
Registers and countries covered Australian Trade Mark Search Registered and pending Australian trade marks, including trade marks registered with the International Bureau designating Australia, which are found by their international registration number Canadian Trademarks Database All active and many inactive marks applied for or registered under the current Trademarks Act or former trademark legislation, including all marks cancelled, expunged, abandoned or refused after 1979 and some before; national and international (Madrid Protocol) filings can be shown separately. The database also holds section 9 prohibited and official marks, certification marks, geographical indications and plant breeders' rights denominations
Word, phonetic and image search Australian Trade Mark Search Word searches with exact, prefix, suffix, part, stem, fuzzy and phonetic options, phrases with AND, OR, NOT, quotes and wildcards, image search by visual similarity from an uploaded PNG, JPG, GIF, BMP or SVG up to 8 MB, advanced image search with standard image constituent terms, and searches by number or range, owner, party, address for service, goods and services text, status, dates, type and flags such as non-use Canadian Trademarks Database Basic and advanced searches over 21 fields, with up to 5 criteria combined by AND, OR and NOT, wildcards for one or several characters and quotation marks for exact sequences; filters by category, by type of mark (word, design, sound, colour, 3D, scent, motion and other non-traditional types) and by status group, and figurative searches by Vienna code. The search ignores case and accents

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The trade-offs

Strengths and Limitations

Australian Trade Mark Search

Strengths

From IP Australia, the office that examines Australian applications
Phonetic, fuzzy and stem word searches for spelling and sound variants
Image search by visual similarity from an uploaded logo
Excel export of up to 2,000 results and a documented search API

Limitations

Covers the Australian register only; other countries need other databases
The official pages describe no watch or email alerts for new filings
The image search does not read words inside an image, so they have to be typed separately

Canadian Trademarks Database

Strengths

Run by CIPO, with the database updated every Wednesday
Includes non-traditional marks such as sound, scent, hologram and motion since June 2019
Result sets of up to 5,000 rows export as CSV
Researcher datasets and XML records for analysis outside the search

Limitations

Covers the Canadian register only; other countries need other databases
The help pages describe no phonetic or similarity search mode, so variants have to be entered one by one
The official pages describe no watch or email alerts for new filings
CIPO does not warrant the accuracy of the data, and recent changes may not be included

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What users say

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Australian Trade Mark Search

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Where this comes from

Australian Trade Mark Search https://ipaustralia.gov.au/trade-marks/search-existing-trade-marks · checked against the official source on 2026-11-08

Canadian Trademarks Database https://ised-isde.canada.ca/site/canadian-intellectual-property-office/en/trademarks/introduction-canadian-trademarks-database · checked against the official source on 2026-11-10

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